A reminder: Quand la Science Fair Rire, a television program about the Ig Nobel Prizes and Ig Nobel Prize winners, premieres on France 5, on Friday night, September 28. Produced by Frederic Lepage and directed by Roland Portiche for Paris-based FL Concepts, this and subsequent episodes will later also be shown on public television networks in […]
Tag: England
Apostrophe Protection Ig Nobellian Admonishes Bookseller
Ig Nobel Prize winner John Richards swung into action against a bookstore chain this week. (Mr. Richards, founder of The Apostrophe Protection Society, was awarded the 2001 Ig Nobel Prize in literature for his efforts to protect, promote, and defend the differences between plural and possessive.) Harry Wallop reports in The Daily Telegraph: Waterstones drops its apostrophe Waterstones, the […]
The wallabies of England
How many wallabies are wandering the wilds of England? Parrott and colleagues assessed the situation in 2008, issuing a study: “The Status of Scarce Non-Native Birds and Mammals in England,” Dave Parrott, S. Roy & M. Fletcher, Central Science Laboratory, December 2008. The authors report that : “Established colonies of wallabies… are known to have […]